Template:On this day/March 8

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

March 8:

• 1926 – Richard Thomas Walker Duke Jr., a prominent jurist, civic leader and prolific writer of local historical events, died at his home on Park Street at the age of 72.
• 1986 – The lowest temperature ever reached in Charlottesville history for this day is 10 °F.
• 1998 – 1.27 inches of rain fell, the most precipitation ever recorded in Charlottesville history.